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The Perfect Diurnall – an embryonic newspaper
The political crisis of the 1640s proved a fertile breeding ground for printing, with broadsheets and chapbooks being printed in large numbers. The former were single sheets of paper of various sizes printed on one side only. Chapbooks used single-sheets that were cut or folded to make them into small pamphlets, so were much more like newspapers as we know them. The Civil war also presented a new challenge in that the opposing sides now had to win people to their side rather than simply summoning them, so both Royalists and Parliament employed propaganda to achieve it. The two main opposing chapbook
GA Ref.No: JQ1.6GS*
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